More than half of Londoners planning to ditch plastic bottles for reusable flasks

Over 50 per cent of Londoners plan to swap disposable plastic drinks bottles with reusable flasks this year ( Alamy Stock Photo ) ES News Email Enter your email address or register with your social account I would like to receive lunchtime headlines Monday - Friday plus breaking news alerts by email Continue Already have an account? Log in More than half of Londoners plan to buy fewer disposable plastic drinks bottles this year and switch to reusable flasks, according to a survey. Many people already use a drinks flask when they are out and about, with 34 per cent of respondents in the capital making it a habit. Fifty-six per cent said they would make the swap. Nine per cent of participants said watching contestants on Love Island drinking from water bottles had “prompted them to pick one up”. The survey for drinks firm Soda Stream found nearly all the respondents in London said they felt they could help shape the future environment and water quality in the capital by making better packaging choices. Use of supermarket bags saw the biggest cut in everyday plastics use, with 78 per cent of London respondents saying they had already swapped 5p carriers for reusable versions. The survey follows the Evening Standard’s Last Straw campaign to ban plastic straws across London, which has received backing from the likes of McDonald’s and Pizza Express . Almost half of the survey’s respondents, or 49 per cent, said they had refused plastic straws in bars and pubs this year to stop them clogging up the river or harming wildlife. A third of Londoners said they viewed excessive plastics consumption as “more socially unacceptable than public displays of affection.” But the same of amount of people admitted they still “hadn’t made any effort” to cut out plastic packaging as part of their household shopping. Pollsters questioned 2,000 adults, 266 of whom were from London.